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Tweets from 2017/04

  1. …in reply to @v21
    i saw my first nu-egg! it was a good sign i was reading a thread i should have exited some time past
  2. this trans day of visibility i met a coworker for the first time since they came out
  3. …in reply to @v21
    they seem so much more present and happy than when i saw them last. i'm v glad for them.
  4. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow i was reading the release notes and thinking of you. merry christmas.
  5. i hate that April Fools is 48hrs long
  6. …in reply to @v21
    it should be, like, 3 at most
  7. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow as someone said, games are just a series of interesting questions
  8. RT @katrinanavickas: Google Earth 3D is weird. Here's Century House being demolished on St Peter's Square, #Manchester. The diggers look li…
  9. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle "use of objects" is good! "other uses"? "caution, please advise"? "other/extra affordance"?
  10. affordance is a fucked up word in that it means a thing and also the incredibly contingent perception of that thing all at once
  11. i keep trying to render gradients and getting mad about banding
  12. …in reply to @v21
    like, it's fine if i get to write the shader, but that's not a thing with mp4 files
  13. …in reply to @v21
    oh, hey, this might do: cloud.google.com/free/
  14. had a reason to revisit the dev thread for @softlandscapes today @v21/703238155223359488
  15. ugh i need a picture of me looking cool with glitchy shit projected onto my face, don't i?
  16. …in reply to @v21
    like, if i want to be taken seriously as an artist, etc
  17. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir tbh, that might work too
  18. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe @softlandscapes this is what I think of as the minimal interesting example : cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/hashfacade
  19. …in reply to @v21
    @ohhoe @softlandscapes the other place to start is by making SVGs in Inkscape/Illustrator, then looking at the source and varying/combining bits
  20. …in reply to @DavidLublin
  21. …in reply to @algcifaldi
    @amandaglosson @DavidLublin @hypirlink @ohhoe @softlandscapes oh, that'd be neat! ping me, if I'm awake/around I'll hang out for that
  22. …in reply to @undefined
    @digitalsqand I mean, I'm halfway through a light novel about someone reincarnated as a vending machine in a generic fantasy RPG world.
  23. RT @dril: my big april prank: scream about my dick for 5 years on a website that people normally use to socialize with friends and loved on…
  24. a twitter account: @trainbeer
  25. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn @kevinmaxon i am not in the traditionally allocated Emotion role, and: yes
  26. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn @kevinmaxon this is why i try to release videogames by myself, and before I've noticed that I am Making A Videogame.
  27. the difference between a game about the fact you've hand modelled a lot of these, and one about the fact you've procedurally generated them @Oniropolis/848157603712688133
  28. on my way home, i finally (FINALLY) felt the beauty of this year's spring blossoms
  29. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb i assume this has to do with yr camera sensor having a rolling shutter?
  30. …in reply to @sintecta
    @sintecta hey, i wear glasses! shame about the rest of them, tho
  31. …in reply to @alltom
    @alltom @ADAMATOMIC but buttons afford and also afford clicking. they can also afford and not afford click-and-dragging.
  32. …in reply to @LydNicholas
    @LydNicholas some games that feel like different places: Sacramento Slave of God 10,000 Years Tarantella Sicilienne (& others in that collection)
  33. RT @mark_e_davis: Looking forward to 1000+ new emoji this year. Code points already assigned — just have B&W images so far, but wait for th…
  34. you teach a man to make a bot... (yeah, forreal on that content warning, folks) @HonestWilliam/848498895760084992
  35. RT @JamesMelville: Hugely significant development. Spain confirms that it wouldn't veto an independent Scotland joining the EU. https://t.…
  36. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @LeeShangLun I was super sceptical going into that review (I like the loose walking simulator nature of SHCD the most), but: huh! Definitely intrigued.
  37. …in reply to @doougle
    @doougle @LeeShangLun Right! Mixing that narrative deductive hypothesis uncertainty with yomi...
  38. …in reply to @v21
    @doougle @LeeShangLun And then those "ahhh, what a dick" moves like the no-writing-for-a-turn rule.
  39. I am so excited for summer! I am filled with optimism about it being a Very Good Summer.
  40. …in reply to @v21
    Let's all hang out and have a good summer together, okay?
  41. …in reply to @LydNicholas
  42. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow perfect
  43. RT @RenataFauxbles: Have repeated this to myself on loop for the last year. Stoked for #TtW17
  44. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ fuck I should fix my bike and tidy and get my life straight ahead of this week. but I'll let you know if I weaken.
  45. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal I am thinking about @doougle's literalizations or @bfod's simulations of real world sports. Where's the mega-girp boardgame, huh?
  46. RT @DVSblast: .@JoyceCarolOates thats not the same at all thats terrible youre terrible but thank you for inventing oatmeal
  47. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite @doougle @notquitereal @bfod 4 player co-op, each player is a different limb. None of the cards are ever allowed to touch the table.
  48. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite @doougle @notquitereal @bfod Nah, QWOP is two-player, you have to keep your hands touching each other as you move the counters around.
  49. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @Thairyn All I want is The Perfect Two Weeks some time in the next 6 months.
  50. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew I am! It will be good.
  51. …in reply to @LydNicholas
    @LydNicholas Yeah, Sacramento is definitely the most immediately beautiful. 10,000 Years is more oppressive than scary (nothing jumps at you!)
  52. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew Yes, sorry, an Airbnb with @compositeredfox
  53. …in reply to @tigershungry
  54. …in reply to @whitingjp
    @whitingjp I am standing in a pub by the Thames with my dad and friends (so can't listen now), but I was already mentally starting a playlist, thanks.
  55. …in reply to @LydNicholas
    @LydNicholas Ah, so pleased! The Sunday Girl thing in that same pack had me hooked on that song for months.
  56. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox Let's have a beer in the sun and not really care about the Important Games Festival Content we're missing soon, okay?
  57. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful i mean, i'm definitely here for this tweet
  58. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful i just got the "But I still had some oranges left / Underneath the bed" line after seeing the piece it's named after, if that counts...
  59. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful i only just learnt this looking up the lyrics now! philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/92277.html
  60. I have a private account: @v21_priv. request a follow if you want (if I don't accept, pls don't take offence, trying to keep it small&weird)
  61. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro in both cases, that's the usual route to making money from it
  62. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark I've spent the evening listening to The Wave Pictures' classic youtu.be/7OHfi4U2k-g
  63. …in reply to @doougle
  64. i am NOT watching the wrestling, because i should already be asleep. and also I have never played a final fantasy game.
  65. …in reply to @v21
    nevertheless, your pictures on here are conveying warmth into my heart
  66. RT @hondanhon: your regular reminder that the f-35 is the best case study that all military procurement is now tech procurement https://t.c…
  67. RT @pookleblinky: Basically, every dish possible to make before 1700 is a marvel of chemistry and human biology, the result of countless ge…
  68. RT @howitsmadeup: This glaze is made mainly of sodium and silicon. The technical artistry is on the inside. It solidifies within two minute…
  69. While acknowledging that both have rich, distinct histories and that great work can exist in either form, still you tend towards the opinion
  70. …in reply to @_gaeel_
    @_gaeel_ Best for LIFE
  71. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb did Zombie LARP, which is pretty lightweight as these things go. But also super great?
  72. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin I'm sorry Hannah, I thought it was funny
  73. …in reply to @v21
    @hannahnicklin (I still do)
  74. we are looking for a Unity developer! come work with us and make games for things that fall over! docs.google.com/document/d/1_QoMyE0cRbflobIhhea2H5uJmT9Bjzda3Spjq3sw71Q/pub
  75. useful information! @edclef/848816597699629056
  76. …in reply to @v21
    9 plinths, 9 players: Dead Pixels by @MechBird
  77. …in reply to @v21
  78. …in reply to @v21
    I worked on this one: @beastsofbalance by @sensibleobject
  79. …in reply to @v21
    and recently nominated for the A MAZE awards, the scratchy mysteries of @the_red_tree's Karambola
  80. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb can't remember? but i've already tweeted about it in this thread once vaguely, so...
  81. …in reply to @v21
    cast your desires into the void, with @polclarissou's Wish Fishing
  82. a twitter account that just tweets funny names for quality settings people have put in the Unity launcher
  83. …in reply to @AranKoning
    @AranKoning what a pure and genuine smile you have there
  84. RT @GalaxyKate: Research findings: This title. "INNOVATION THROUGH THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE…
  85. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz So hard not to get tricked into "and it's more productive, too!". Like living a better life would be worse if you didn't get as much done.
  86. …in reply to @elirainsberry
    @LizRainsberry There's a big art festival on on the Sunday, too!
  87. about my mentions
  88. …in reply to @lyyyndseyyy
    @lyyyndseyyy Nahhhh. Groovejet for sure. Though it's less about Sophie Ellis-Bextor
  89. RT @perlin_noise: 💛💛💚💙💙💙💙💙💚💚 💛💛💚💚💙💙💙💚💚💚 ♥💛💛💚💚💙💙💚💚💚 ♥♥💛💛💚💚💚💚💚💚 💜♥♥💛💚💚💚💚💚💚 💜💜♥💛💛💚💚💚💚💚 💜💜♥♥💛💚💚💚💚💚 💜💜♥♥💛💚💚💚💚💚 💜💜♥♥💛💚💚💚💚💚 ♥♥♥💛💛💚💚💚💚💚 ♥♥♥💛💛💚💚💚💚💚…
  90. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @lyyyndseyyy That's nice! I like that.
  91. …in reply to @BernieDeKoven
    @BernieDeKoven We've only ever caught each other in passing online - but I'm very glad of even that. And I'm very glad you've shared your ideas. Thank you.
  92. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro Queued up!
  93. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @babbygoth @DMGToronto I wonder how linear it ends up being, on average...
  94. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @babbygoth Yeah, I mean, it's definitely loose/non-linear... And I know people who have seen it accidentally in v weird orders.
  95. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall @babbygoth Bag of stones vs branching bush vs spider's web vs a braid. So many pretty narrative structures.
  96. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @babbygoth Oh! I'd love to hear more about those
  97. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @babbygoth This is a cool list largely of stuff I love and stuff I've been meaning to read for ages!
  98. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall @babbygoth I am really excited to paw through your desk of secrets later this week!
  99. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall @babbygoth Also (as it's on the shelf facing me now) : I can definitely recommend Pale Fire. And Stand on Zanzibar, though that's just about linear.
  100. …in reply to @v21
    I didn't mean for this to end up as a thread, but youtu.be/La4-xj-VmUU
  101. …in reply to @mcclure111
  102. I am assuming that this was indirectly our fault, and therefore: come through! come play it this weekend at Now Play This! @mcclure111/849129033468084224
  103. …in reply to @v21
    if I'm wrong: oh well, there's still GREAT ARTIST, you can deal
  104. …in reply to @richlitt
    @richlitt @stripe I feel sorry for the Australians
  105. RT @NyssaOru: A BMX lady I spent way too much time on #animaiton #BMX
  106. …in reply to @auriea
    @auriea Release your doodles!
  107. …in reply to @auriea
    @auriea I'm serious! If you develop it further, just release a new version, or a new work in the same series
  108. out of standing, walking and sitting, standing is by far the worst
  109. …in reply to @auriea
    @auriea Yeah, I feel this. It's a big constraint on what you make, that it'll get to a somewhat comprehensible thing frequently.
  110. …in reply to @v21
    @auriea But then you look back at a course of experimentation and it's a series of Things not just sketches/thoughts, and that's useful to you, too
  111. …in reply to @auriea
    @auriea I feel that! Have fun, I'm really glad this was helpful.
  112. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh I thought you were talking about GitS until I read again!
  113. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw i think it looks good, but also (more importantly? i don't want to presume) yr brows are bangin
  114. …in reply to @swizzle_kiss
    @swizzle_kiss Cite it as a zine, unless you're citing Games For People, in which case you should cite it as a booklet
  115. threads that make me happy @vivschwarz/849382703640215552
  116. …in reply to @EBBerger
    @EBBerger @parasitocenosis @gcarloms Seems to me they come from the healthy British antifa tradition. Gwan and get yourself.
  117. Important festival purchases
  118. …in reply to @garethbriggs
    @garethbriggs @alphachar How would she feel about Peow Studio stuff?
  119. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw Richard Massaman. Hey, that one works!
  120. I'm having fun
  121. …in reply to @EBBerger
    @EBBerger @parasitocenosis @gcarloms Oh, apologies, I meant the shut down LD50 people.
  122. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions When it's done!
  123. RT @netgal_emi: I wrote a bit about seating, art exhibitions and videogames ahead of going to NPT this weekend: medium.com/@midboss/attention-please-362fe86d4c5e
  124. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi yes yes yes yes thank you (I'm not saying our show engages entirely with everything you've talked about, but so good to read)
  125. …in reply to @deer_ful
    @deer_ful do you know about sci hub?
  126. …in reply to @chrstnclv
    @chrstnclv @benfinoradin i do not, but i would be happy to help... but not this week, as this week is setting up an exhibition week.
  127. RT @FROGTips: DO YOU BELIEVE IN FROG AFTER FROG (AFTER FROG AFTER FROG AFTER FROG AFTER FROG)? WITH FROG SYSTEMS' FROG SUBSCRIPTION PLAN, Y…
  128. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet I would love to make a pot that only boils when you're not looking. God.
  129. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet Other than the bit about messing around with high voltage electrics, but I assume that'd turn out fine in the end.
  130. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet I've spent a load of time with IoT startups lately, and I am just imagining that incredibly sincere startup pitch...
  131. …in reply to @v21
    @FinalBullet I mean, also, totally doable. If you ever wanna spend a weekend making a prototype, I'm down.
  132. RT @allspaw: 1. Read this. Again. 2. Does it show up in your work? 3. Is it about AI? Or teamwork? Or both? 4. Ur welcome. :) https://t.c…
  133. …in reply to @WhosTheSuit
    @FinalBullet @barnoid Yess! 👊
  134. …in reply to @froachclub
    @froachclub next year! it'll be great, we'll make a special Froach Cake to celebrate
  135. i'm so depressed we have to care about the soap opera movements into and out of favour of Trump's courtiers
  136. RT @SimonParkin: PaRappa the Rapper concept art to brighten your day:
  137. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn One good thing has been happening, slowly and with a great deal of effort. But it is good hard work, and going well, and it opens tomorrow.
  138. final day of Now Play This prep!
  139. RT @katierosepipkin: It costs about $14,000 to bring a refugee into the US and support them for a year. A single Tomahawk costs just over a…
  140. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz @nowplaythese See you there soon!
  141. when you send a tweet that has another account you're signed in as tagged, and are immediately surprised by the notification
  142. this is not the right morning for trains to be screwed up, arrg. T minus 1 hour 46 til opening.
  143. RT @SmoothUnicode: ᝪᝡᝳᝳ⢂ᝨᝣᝲᝤᝦᝯᝤᝮᝠᝳᝬᝥᝦᝦᝩᝢᝥᝬᝠᝨ⠑ᝯᝠᝯ⢄⡠ᝡᝤᝨᝨᝲᝣᝦᝧᝰᝬ⢂⡠ᝲᝩ⠑ᝮᝨ⡠ᝥᝧᝳ⠡ᝥ⠌⠑⠊⠢܆ᝮᝩ⠢ᝣ⠑ᝠᝧᝣ⠑ᝩ⡐ᝲ⠑ᝳᝮ⠑⠔⠔⠊ᝢᝬᝯᝬ⠑⠑⠔⡠ᝬ⢁ᝨᝦ⠢⠌ᝮᝬ⠑⡠⡈⠌⠡⠑⡈⢂⢂⡠⡠⠑ᝫᝠ⠑⢁ᝫᝥ⠡⢂⢁⠑⠑⠡ᝪ⠔…
  144. I woke up with a snippet of this tweet rattling around my head without context. @drewtoothpaste/293454323403350019
  145. …in reply to @sheilamu
  146. …in reply to @_gaeel_
    @_gaeel_ @ScarletCatalie Not explicitly - twitter has some duplicate detection that normally fixes it, but otherwise you just need to put more variants. :(
  147. RT @LeeShangLun: I am beautiful (@q_dork's Morning Makeup Madness at @nowplaythese)
  148. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @uncooldana @smestorp People are still having a good time with it! We'll figure it out.
  149. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 yep, everyone will be asleep or very sleepy until at least 8am GMT
  150. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir thank YOU <3
  151. …in reply to @undefined
    @thecatamites oooh, yeah. which is one of the reasons I have a crush on Assemble (not that they call themselves artists).
  152. …in reply to @v21
    @thecatamites where they start from food and shelter and security and self-determination, and then later have to try to figure out how to fit it into Art
  153. Hazy morning, tired but happy, heading in to Now Play This. Should be a good day.
  154. …in reply to @v21
    my aim today is to have 20 minutes of drifting through watching people enjoy themselves without talking to anyone or fixing anything.
  155. RT @managore: gamedev tip: work out the most efficient way to play your game and make sure that way of playing is fun. if it isn't, your ga…
  156. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 Yes, sorry, I have a half written email to you! Will finish now
  157. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @thecatamites put the frog in the hoop!
  158. RT @nowplaythese: One day left! We're sold out for advance tickets for Sunday afternoon but there's a few on the door, plus morning tickets…
  159. …in reply to @bazpoint
    @bazpoint It's by Big Potato!
  160. …in reply to @v21
    So @netgal_emi made a zine inspired by this tweet? coleo_kin.itch.io/crush-zone
  161. …in reply to @bazpoint
    @bazpoint I mean, that sounds like a fun way to spend your time!
  162. RT @wystandoll: Joanne Kyger from All This Every Day (3 of 6)
  163. GNU Social rebranding as Mastodon was a really smart move
  164. …in reply to @v21
    this is a joke because technically Mastodon is just one GNU Social compatible federated instance
  165. RT @15kPhrases: SECTION IV - IMPRESSIVE PHRASES: fluctuating‚ hesitating‚ vacillating‚ and oscillating
  166. hello! i've been very quiet this last week, as we ran Now Play This. today i am enjoying having a job where i get to sit down all day.
  167. …in reply to @v21
    but i do want to say: thank you, everyone who came along to Now Play This. I hope you had a good time. photos to follow...
  168. …in reply to @v21
    i also want to thank @hollygramazio @profaniti and @UltraCobalt for being fantastic people to do this huge silly thing with
  169. …in reply to @v21
    if you couldn't come (or did, but want to revisit them), most of the games you can play at home are at this link: itch.io/c/171036/now-play-this-2017
  170. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew @LeeShangLun yr both terrifying enough individually, tbh
  171. …in reply to @Willeth
    @Willeth ah! so glad.
  172. …in reply to @v21
    although that list misses probably the best game in the show... beastsofbalance.com
  173. …in reply to @kahodesu
    @kahodesu @ra When I was a teenager, we'd sometimes say "randomer"
  174. thinking about the number of different words I will use for a computer error
  175. …in reply to @v21
    a crash is different from a hang is different from a freeze
  176. …in reply to @danielthedaring
    @pttrsnio @thirtycircles @softlandscapes oh, this is lovely
  177. …in reply to @v21
    one of my favourites is "got wedged", for implying a specific thing about the (lack of) flow of data
  178. …in reply to @priya_ebooks
    @priya_ebooks plugging my own thing, but you can do this with cheapbotsdonequick.com
  179. …in reply to @v21
    @priya_ebooks just put {"origin":"fuck the police"} in the source bit
  180. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe @butt_city @mjmcmaster this is a #1 top tip
  181. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw a quiet and gentle energy, they are thoughtful and considered and on further reflection actually a genius.
  182. …in reply to @v21
    @hownottodraw which in turn comes from being able to be committed to a thing, to be brave when it's needed. kind. I'm describing multiple people here.
  183. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw I hope that, together, they take over the fucking world.
  184. RT @aprikii: 'i don't live in america' starter pack
  185. "Mowley's... The Real Taste"
  186. I am basically tolerant and accepting (well meaning & I'm okay with the aesthetic) of this stuff, but I do agree with this critique! @hannahnicklin/851712763944722432
  187. …in reply to @v21
    This applies to the whole self-care thing, too, ofc, which @JFriedhoff wrote really well about medium.com/@jfriedhoff/playing-with-resistance-a483b19d4fe7
  188. …in reply to @plentyofalcoves
    @plentyofalcoves That bit was a specific subtweet...
  189. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw It is okay if I don't like the same things you do, and it doesn't make me like you less.
  190. …in reply to @adrianhon
    @adrianhon this is a livejournal post
  191. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @katbamkapow jack the house was a fucking tip, i would have felt bad if i had enough energy left over from the festival for shame
  192. …in reply to @v21
    @notquitereal @katbamkapow by which i mean... er, kat, everything is fine, i am taking good care of the house and it'll all look fine when anisa arrives
  193. RT @philippawarr: Hitting the Random Garden button on the @SIGardens site dispenses such lovely stories <3 🌱 🌸 🌳 <3 communityofgardens.si.edu
  194. RT @ra: the @aphyr tech interviews are all i need in life rn aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
  195. i am already excited for ELCAF @ELCAFest/851805096597999617
  196. …in reply to @ParanoidHawk
  197. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn lovely!
  198. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi do you want to do a ~~~~project~~~~?
  199. …in reply to @logodaedalus
    @logodaedalus Every few weeks, I get together with friends and we read poetry. Ideally from memory, which is has the same effect.
  200. RT @kcimc: this is really neat: seeing 4+ primary colors, using complementary filters for each eye arxiv.org/abs/1703.04392 https://t.co/W0Q…
  201. A game where the maximum standard jump gives you fall damage.
  202. the hard part, the main bit, of programming is understanding the problem
  203. RT @vivschwarz: I dreamt Unity was haunted like that video and if you used it you had to teach it to someone else or you see ghosts and die
  204. RT @genekogan: you can now visualize layers & classify images ~60fps w/ ofxDarknet. real-time feature extraction in @openframeworks https:/…
  205. starting to be that the gamedev equivalent of polishing yr github profile is polishing yr itchio page. with everything that entails.
  206. …in reply to @v21
    (everything that entails: as a high-cost, high-quality signal generated (usually) outside of getting paid, it discriminates like fuck)
  207. …in reply to @v21
    programmers are good at inventing new and interesting tools to make the other bits faster. but this bit mainly stays slow and non-parallel.
  208. …in reply to @v21
    anyway, did i mention: we're hiring! docs.google.com/document/d/1_QoMyE0cRbflobIhhea2H5uJmT9Bjzda3Spjq3sw71Q/pub (send an itch.io link, or don't)
  209. how to cook: fry some onions and garlic add other things also, a starch
  210. RT @SomersetHouse: Thanks to everyone who came to #NowPlayThis over the weekend. Check out our highlights ⚡️ “Now Play This 2017” https://…
  211. body/space warping in VR youtube.com/watch?v=SiH3IHEdmR0 also - great cheesy siggraph vid
  212. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro i mean, it's kind of evil, but there's enough fucked up perceptual tricks around... just easier to do them when you can fake vision
  213. …in reply to @v21
    @jonbro remember a study from undergrad where you move the dot you're reaching for midmotion & it's not perceived (but is corrected for)
  214. …in reply to @v21
    @jonbro still, though, they're getting some bigger offsets than i'd expect! cool to combine both techniques and fade them by motion
  215. …in reply to @jonbro
    @jonbro you can't do this trick in AR, unless you overpaint _everything_
  216. …in reply to @legobutts
    @legobutts ohh, i think i see the difference: previously visibility was based on if you followed the initial person being responded to. now it's anyone
  217. …in reply to @v21
    @legobutts who is in the "replying to" list that you follow (excepting if you reply to yourself, that has special case handling)
  218. …in reply to @v21
    @legobutts so "@Private @someone_you_follow reply" wouldn't show up before, but it would now ("@private reply" wouldn't before or now)?
  219. …in reply to @marx_knopfler
    @marx_knopfler @lippemfg you're assuming the opposite of "capitalism" is "communism", not "anarchism" (i don't have a dog in this fight, tbh)
  220. …in reply to @marx_knopfler
    @marx_knopfler @lippemfg i share your scepticism!
  221. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone @tinysubversions this is not exactly that, but it is very good: openbarbers.co.uk/
  222. …in reply to @v21
  223. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone @tinysubversions haha, i had not made /that/ connection. but yes, just like that, very gentle and accepting.
  224. getting residual hits of festival high by scouring the instagram tag instagram.com/explore/tags/nowplaythis/
  225. …in reply to @FlorianVltmn
    @FlorianVltmn video games is what you call it when you want videogame money
  226. had a fun conversation with @notquitereal the other night where we played Kona and picked it apart from our various perspectives
  227. …in reply to @v21
    .@notquitereal he mainly talked about how the structure conveyed narrative. and I mainly speculated about how the design was shaped by what gets funded
  228. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow some from last night
  229. …in reply to @undefined
    @RealAvocadoFact oulipo.social?
  230. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @FlorianVltmn "it's a short game, about 8 or 10 hours"
  231. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork @108 hoshi no kirby 3 forever! those little cutscenes... even that splash screen. it's so pixel and so pastel all at once.
  232. …in reply to @v21
    @q_dork @108 and the bonus for not squashing any flowers, the cute animal friends (the owl feather duster attack!), Gooey being goopy...
  233. …in reply to @v21
    @q_dork @108 This is a game I can't imagine making, can't imagine half-broken, in a debug state. It's whole and perfect in my head. Nostalgia, I guess...
  234. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork @108 oh! I'm not sure I'd seen that... all these memories are tied up with playing it emulated, sharing a keyboard.
  235. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @FlorianVltmn I mean, @mrsambarlow just favourited your last tweet... Her Story is a great single bottle game.
  236. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck Adventure awaits!
  237. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck all shelves are basically the same, right?
  238. Remembering when I got to put my visuals good and large instagram.com/p/BSloaUWlYuR/
  239. I got a new external keyboard and mouse.
  240. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver yup! works great, all still intact after 3 days of heavy hammering
  241. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir aw! i am trying to remember who i got the idea of using nailvarnish from...
  242. RT @108: @Radstronomical @q_dork and, uh, ~*~*~whoa~*~*~, the megadrive sonic box arts sure do have a hyper-strong product / brand-design c…
  243. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ fuck! i just did that. i feel so used.
  244. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jmickle_ it's okay, i'll just mute you for a bit to balance it out
  245. RT @ironicsans: How to draw a dragon using Google AutoDraw.
  246. …in reply to @ellaguro
    @ellaguro and less famous great artist mouse!
  247. …in reply to @iainl7
    @iainl7 mainly i just made sure each was unique. except the f keys said the number they were (so ascended), and i matched delete and backspace
  248. …in reply to @v21
    @iainl7 i did it with nailvarnish, which worked great. took a while/a lot of blobbing to get it properly opaque with some of the colours
  249. …in reply to @iainl7
    @iainl7 i mean, really i should've played great artist and tried to communicate the intent of each key... but improvising was fun
  250. to be fair, here, "Fearless Girl" IS an ad for an index fund @guardian/852253990289068032
  251. RT @connrbell: wrote a little bit about some things I've learned making gifs (w/ shader code) connorbell.ca/2017/04/10/Studies-on-Raymarching-Gifs.html https://t.co/kMIcS3GT…
  252. …in reply to @ksheely
    @ksheely i am pretty sure i partake in frequent shitposting, but i am not sure i could spot a shitpost in a crowd
  253. …in reply to @bozulbang
    @LichLike i have coconut oil in my hair right now. put it on there, it's good for you.
  254. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i follow some bots (@hashfacade comes to mind) that just post colour, and it feels like signal loss
  255. …in reply to @v21
    @mcclure111 @hashfacade especially if i'm in a patchy signal environment, like on a train under the ground,
  256. folks of mastodon, i'm tootable at oulipo.social/@v21
  257. …in reply to @v21
    (though, i might lack in constant communication. it's a unusually constraining part of Mastodon)
  258. …in reply to @v21
    mainly i miss all short words which could mark "[virtual] location"
  259. …in reply to @v21
    i'm sitting within a shrug born of a lack of words, struggling to transmit thought. it's fun!
  260. …in reply to @v21
    ugh, looking back, i find that thing, that fifth glyph. i was full of vain hoping!
  261. …in reply to @chrisamaphone
    @chrisamaphone we implemented L-systems in our intro Haskell course. it's visual... but not too far from what you'd do.
  262. …in reply to @v21
    you can mark out my struggling by looking at gaps from post to post. slow work, but i'm improving.
  263. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen join us in a community without that fifth glyph
  264. …in reply to @v21
    @tullyhansen or, you could join bots off-world (adopt robot skin, hoping nobody will catch on)
  265. …in reply to @tullyhansen
    @tullyhansen hard limit, although i'd shun social workarounds (as would folks who run it - bans could occur)
  266. …in reply to @jbushnell
    @jbushnell hah. you can say all things, i think. it's just hard work.
  267. …in reply to @v21
    @jbushnell (and will spawn occasionally awkward phrasing)
  268. …in reply to @EthanBeihl
    @EthanBeihl @tullyhansen i should probably work on CBDQ support, possibly on a shiny individual shard of my own...
  269. i just learned about @aparrish's divination class and 😍 eroft.decontextualize.com/
  270. …in reply to @v21
    oh no, i am stuck saying things in this way within my brain now. i'm hoping it has worn off by morning.
  271. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb it's an oulipian constraint. what am i not typing?
  272. …in reply to @v21
    @KommanderKlobb (uh, apart from that occasion in which i got it wrong. dismiss that from your mind)
  273. …in reply to @v21
  274. …in reply to @gillianmsmith
    @gillianmsmith @chrisamaphone @fishofdream @nettieb there's also an immediacy to visual stuff. you lack the context for abstract results to matter, so they want to be concrete.
  275. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb on Mastodon and this chain, yup. Who knows how long that'll last.
  276. …in reply to @merrittk
    @merrittk Frank Sidebottom
  277. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb I think third party apps can log on? Not had a go at that myself so far.
  278. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt I swear by the ultimarc ipac, but that's probably even more $$$. But you can get cheap pawnshop controllers, open them, and solder to boards
  279. …in reply to @v21
    @underskinnyhrt Then you either make a thing that connects each wire yourself, or connect to some arcade buttons.
  280. …in reply to @v21
    @underskinnyhrt (I learned that trick from @SK_Louie, and he's got a lot more practice with it than me)
  281. …in reply to @v21
    @underskinnyhrt @SK_Louie Oh! Also fun: copper slug tape. PITA to solder to, but it can be done (I've done it 80 odd times for the Doom Piano).
  282. …in reply to @PlayDorotop
    @PlayDorotop @scratch they're not stickers! they're nail varnish!
  283. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt basically it's: something that completes a circuit when you do a thing & something that converts a closed circuit to a computer signal
  284. …in reply to @v21
    @underskinnyhrt the hacklab seems like a good idea (they'll have nice solder stations and wire, for one), but this stuff works more often than not
  285. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt Yah - Rasp Pis have GPIO pins, I think? And obv Arduinos can read pins easily (Firmata will get the signal onto your computer).
  286. …in reply to @v21
    @underskinnyhrt (Makey Makey is an Arduino with a neat form factor and some resistors to make it super sensitive)
  287. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt @SK_Louie 😁🎨 (tbh stripping the wires was the worst bit)
  288. …in reply to @SK_Louie
    @SK_Louie @underskinnyhrt EITHER I was young and foolish, OR the hackspace one of those was lost or broken or crappy or something. who knows
  289. …in reply to @ElectronDance
    @ElectronDance whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Little Mix is good, tho.
  290. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
  291. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew that many people doing good work don't get enough money from it
  292. …in reply to @v21
    @jawsew I'm okay with gamer culture existing when it's possible to happily work here and ignore it. That's sometimes possible now?
  293. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt i don't know if it's better or worse to get to play with this stuff without an Event approaching rapidly...
  294. …in reply to @v21
    @underskinnyhrt also: maybe talk to @joonturbo, see if he has any materials from running his controller workshop
  295. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo @underskinnyhrt do you not need to do some stuff because of the multiplexing and traces on membranes?
  296. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jawsew i'm on the cusp, yeah. i can think of people who seem to interact even less. but also i imagine it's much harder as a journo.
  297. …in reply to @ka_bradley
    @ka_bradley @radionausea i went for "explain in (...)", but of course it varies. "don't translate" is probably my fav, but only works some times.
  298. …in reply to @v21
    @ka_bradley @radionausea a footnote or a glossary is only good if they're enjoyable to read by themselves, a reward for cross-referencing
  299. is the discourse game length now? people like playing short games, they just don't like paying for them
  300. …in reply to @undefined
    @ms45 15 hours is long for me! and $5 is cheap!
  301. …in reply to @undefined
    @ms45 i've got shorter games i want to play first!
  302. Hello! Are you GOOD WITH TWITTER (& other platforms), LOVE CREATING CONTENT and WANT TO SIT IN OUR OFFICE? docs.google.com/document/d/18dpH4xeWkTyP25vDVxB0_hWhYC5J_dFRCDgJVLjdzTw/pub
  303. …in reply to @legobutts
    @legobutts i won't touch that dial
  304. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck i will see you there!
  305. Congratulations to the Barbican, standing head and shoulders above many arts orgs, for having a entirely unobjectionable booking process.
  306. …in reply to @undefined
    @murrayirc cheapest one in stock at Maplins!
  307. RT @bransonreese: Im teaching you to draw turtles for @cafedotcom over on Snapchat today.
  308. the only thing that really excited me about the new Thor film was that it had all the colours in it
  309. …in reply to @v21
    most film trailers only have some of the colours, but this one had all of them. it's refreshing!
  310. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff tbh, I haven't seen them. but good for them!
  311. …in reply to @jjvincent
    @jjvincent @hardmaru ohhh, I see why they launched that drawing thing now
  312. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx I am subs over dubs, but I am glad you have found a happy place
  313. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal They're otolaryngologists. Though, practically, I think you should go to your GP.
  314. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow as someone with a literal million tabs open: they're right.
  315. RT @maxkreminski: I find this super interesting because both creativity & play, like “tickliness”, hinge partly on surprise.
  316. RT @maxkreminski: Computers are great at *defamiliarizing*: at reflecting our own actions back to us, slightly distorted, in ways we find n…
  317. RT @maxkreminski: Many creative toys work like this. The output is clearly related to your input, but it’s also transformed in some unexpec…
  318. RT @maxkreminski: Point is, routing yr own actions thru a defamiliarizing program can enable you to surprise yourself! Hadn’t thought of in…
  319. what does it say that these views don't feel extreme or unreasonable any more? motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i-have-given-up
  320. RT @SK_Louie: Hi if you're curious about an entry point to DIY controllers, try mice! here's me showing/talking about them: https://t.co/z2…
  321. RT @dril: another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let…
  322. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe this sounds lush, thanks
  323. will have to give it a listen later
  324. this is a good story about John Carpenter and The Thing theoriginalfan.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/when-thing-became-john-carpenters-thing.html
  325. RT @decent_patter: The greatest story ever told...
  326. RT @perlin_noise: 🂠🃟🂬🂺🂧🃋🃙🂭🃛🂢🃍 🃊🃜🂼🂹🂦🃎🃗🂾🂣🂭🃓 🃇🃖🂨🂬🃞🂱🃘🂴🂺🃅🂻 🂲🃌🃑🃚🃕🂱🃛🃇🃄🂦🃄 🂠🂩🂸🃈🃃🃎🂡🃑🃙🂼🃟 🂪🃜🂨🂵🃈🂱🂢🃓🃙🂭🃎 🂵🂬🂻🃍🃆🂲🃞🃟🃟🃚🂨 🃒🃃🃓🃚🃗🃉🂥🃒🃑🃚🂦 🃜🂥🂠🂼🂨🃁🂬🃙🃙🂥🂾 🃘🂭🂱🃍🂼🃑🂠🃞🂢🂠🂱 🃉…
  327. RT @unicode_garden: 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹…
  328. …in reply to @v21
    this is not surprising, but: what fantastic work by @tripofmice!
  329. …in reply to @v21
    (looking back, too, i itch to fix phrasing - sub in "i got cocky" for "i was full of vain hoping")
  330. …in reply to @gillianmsmith
    @gillianmsmith @innesmck I really wish this was built into Gmail...
  331. …in reply to @Gib
    @Gib @mennostas Can I have one too?
  332. …in reply to @Gib
  333. …in reply to @ColinNorthway
    @ColinNorthway @vectorpark Just gotta weigh risks, I guess. If the film doesn't work now, and you have a chance to fix it...
  334. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi so, last year we had three ipads chained to cubes in the library, as well as @Citrushistrix's Get Lost (a commission). This was partly...
  335. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi an experiment in finding ways to sit with longer form games within an exhibition context (GL! was short, but the rest were longer)
  336. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi this year, we tried to set up Goodnight Traffic City and Karambola in a similar way
  337. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi not sure we've cracked the problem yet - suggestions on a postcard appreciated. and obviously there could be Twine work elsewhere...
  338. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi @Citrushistrix Get Lost! is interesting for this- built specifically to work in a public context: short playtime, big fonts, heavy branching
  339. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi I mean, imo, Twine as a scene is barely existent these days. Though it remains a good tool, and the people are largely still about.
  340. …in reply to @v21
    @netgal_emi GTC & K are longer things to sit with... but the Awkward Arcade stuff tried to capture similar scratchy self-expression.
  341. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi Yes! The natural endpoint, for me, was merrit's book, which captured so much of the good work and commented on it
  342. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi I mean, flatgame stuff feels like where that urge is starting to pool, these days?
  343. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn @netgal_emi @Citrushistrix I will carry a tiny Thryn in my head next time we put on a festival, and they can demand more and more holes to crawl into.
  344. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn @netgal_emi I like holes, too, and I like those spaces. They're just so difficult and expensive! Did you see our giant paper the first year?
  345. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @Thairyn A giant bit of brown paper you could read within. Pics here: nowplaythis.net/2015-festival-images/
  346. RT @xfoml: interesting bug: excessive guilt
  347. …in reply to @beta_public
    @beta_public Goooood lineup. But I'm sad you beat me to showing @FellatiaGeisha's stuff!
  348. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @Thairyn It was nice! I read Grapefruit in there.
  349. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @Thairyn One thing that was real exciting this time round was showing Actual Fluxus Games.
  350. RT @lorenschmidt: a few folks asked about the rules for the cellular automata i've been working with recently. here are details: https://t.…
  351. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt thanks! i was curious for these details, but did not want to pester
  352. reading this and thinking of The Well Played Game, and how much mutual trust is needed to play when you can get hurt rockpapershotgun.com/2017/04/13/searching-for-the-truth-of-a-fake-world-at-eve-fanfest-2017/#more-441119
  353. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt is there a trigger for those discontinuities?
  354. …in reply to @v21
    .@aparrish have just worked my way through the slides and a few of the readings! esp liked this video of digital shuffling youtube.com/watch?v=RwLFMW6WnN8
  355. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow i am very sad for The Boys Who Try Very Hard And Love Cycling Almost As Much As Their Friends
  356. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
  357. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 @UnburntWitch ohh, i had forgotten about that part. not been following too closely, but the community focused around those books is... yeah.
  358. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall i was on an internet date today, and it got off to a rocky start when she argued that more realistic gfx in VR would make it more persuasive
  359. …in reply to @v21
    @lauraehall (she was not from games/tech. also this story is slightly exaggerated for effect)
  360. RT @aparrish: more output from my gutenberg poetry syntactic similarity space. I'll probably just sit here hitting ctrl+enter for the rest…
  361. RT @dkanaga: good specu bit on homo sap / dog collab / co-evolution in this koch one tho nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-spiritual-reductionist-consciousness-of-christof-koch
  362. …in reply to @haikus_by_KN
    @haikus_by_KN @lauraehall next time i'll bring the 360 capture rig
  363. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @lauraehall if i recall correctly, one of my arguments was that it's not convincing if you can't touch anything
  364. i mean, i know it's not going anywhere, but it's still slightly funny to me that there's a DLR station named after a nearby boat
  365. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa you are allowed to feel bad about bad talk feedback, but also this is not true.
  366. RT @TweetsofOld: RUINED BY KISSES NY1908
  367. RT @darkgreener: Blog post: some things I worked on in the past year or so anna.ps/blog/my-year-and-a-bit-working-on-tech-for-good-projects
  368. i have a beautiful zine sitting on this desk and i keep looking at it and marvelling that it was inspired by my shitposting
  369. it's only april and i am already carefully hoarding tunes for a summer playlist
  370. …in reply to @v21
    (suggestions very welcome)
  371. RT @pedrofpaiva: Adding some graffiti.
  372. RT @anildash: Penn Station, LAX & JFK have all had mass panics in the past year. 16 years of teaching people to be terrorized has worked ve…
  373. …in reply to @ParanoidHawk
    @ParanoidHawk i think this is marginally too much of a banger to be a summer song? but lorde definitely has songs that fit...
  374. …in reply to @v21
    .@ContentEngage i've had an idea like this rattling in my head for years. but it took staying up too late to have the loopy energy to commit to it.
  375. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin thanks, i needed that after choosing to spend several hours looking at the most anodyne marketing copy i could find. bed now.
  376. RT @BRKeogh: I made a game about pretending to play Super Mario Kart brkeogh.itch.io/paint-kart
  377. RT @v21: new bot: @ContentEngage
  378. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt when would this happen? I am too busy til AMAZE, but maybe after then...
  379. If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
  380. …in reply to @v21
    .@ContentEngage i am unsure about whether this is the best form, but i guess we'll find out as it goes on. you can see the corpus at cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/ContentEngage
  381. …in reply to @v21
    .@ContentEngage possibly the corpus is stronger than the bot? something powerful about all these meaningless words, gathered together and without context
  382. …in reply to @v21
    .@ContentEngage (sometimes edited so as to break them open and expose the sharp bits in the middle to the air, sometimes sitting lumpen and whole)
  383. …in reply to @v21
    .@ContentEngage what @Horse_ebooks did with love and aspiring towards beauty, i am doing from a place of noise and static
  384. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite @ContentEngage that's maybe the prompt? although i've had a text file with some of these open for at least 6 months...
  385. …in reply to @hownottodraw
    @hownottodraw worth walking back for, good content
  386. fuck the vertical slice
  387. …in reply to @v21
    fuck all the work that is done in order to get the money needed to do the work that you actually care about
  388. …in reply to @v21
    (this will forever be a problem, i know. but still: fuck it)
  389. …in reply to @innovationFTW
    @innovationFTW I am assuming you're leveraging the cutting edge automated solution provided by CBDQ?
  390. …in reply to @v21
    @innovationFTW If so I regret to inform you that thus far that feature has failed to launch. Your feedback is appreciated will be rolled into our roadmap
  391. just passed a pub with a big sign reading RESTEAMED ~ REBOOTED ~ REPUNKED
  392. …in reply to @innovationFTW
    @innovationFTW Yeah, I've been thinking about a Patreon
  393. …in reply to @SimoRoth
    @SimoRoth Demos I've recently enjoyed: Nier, Gravity Rush 2, Bound
  394. …in reply to @SaintSal
    @SaintSal It's more a question of access to capital than eventual profit.
  395. …in reply to @undefined
    @Dogin_Hoodie I'll pass your feedback onto the management
  396. …in reply to @undefined
    @Dogin_Hoodie I'll let you keep your competitive advantage in exchange for one (1) disgusting glowing green cocktail.
  397. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow Are you gonna come back with a suitcase full of top hats, waistcoats and brass goggles?
  398. …in reply to @samuelthomson
    @samuelthomson honestly, that sounds like it could be a fun project? depends on the setup with the agency and client etc
  399. …in reply to @hexapodium
    @hexapodium @katbamkapow @jawsew I came here to recommend it - it has it's limits, but mainly that it tried to something new and difficult.
  400. I'm excited for AMAZE! The lineup looks great!
  401. …in reply to @undefined
    @briecode I like a surprising response to an input.
  402. RT @JmeBBK: NATION. by Kendrick Lamar itun.es/gb/P6U7ib
  403. …in reply to @__Tyu
    @__Tyu @klondk can i have a klondike biscuit?
  404. a overview of exciting stuff happening in games in the UK, written from just outside medium.com/intersections-arts-and-digital-culture-in-the-uk/the-new-ecology-of-games-802eab428ef8
  405. …in reply to @v21
    (like - i don't know many games people who would call out Farocki's Parallel I-IV, but it was great and totally relevant, and we should)
  406. game feel: an invisible capsule collider rubbing against an invisible box collider
  407. I'm hungover, sitting on a train on my way to Brighton and now I have to work out how to feel about this? @KommanderKlobb/853578329265451008
  408. …in reply to @undefined
    @robertwhat420 if that was all it was i would probably agree with you
  409. …in reply to @LeeShangLun
    @LeeShangLun @MechBird @odrouet2064 @pohungchen @puppyspit @104paris Ahhh! I missed a thing of Zimoun's in Nottingham one year, have regretted it ever since.
  410. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin I am very happy you've got access to a plotter now
  411. …in reply to @LeeShangLun
    @LeeShangLun Running til August, though! So I might still catch it.
  412. RT @froachclub: Due to popular demand, Froach Club stickers are for sale on hotdog.storenvy.com
  413. …in reply to @hownottodraw
  414. I've definitely spent over a year of my life on public transport by this point.
  415. …in reply to @v21
    I'm not complaining
  416. …in reply to @lauraehall
    @lauraehall @hownottodraw same here! i got them horseboys, that same gnog head, obv a sportsmonster...
  417. mastodon exists so oulipo social can exist, and oulipo social exists so people can endlessly rewrite that flagfucking tweet without any "e"s
  418. RT @adbreaking: But to be successful, I knew I had to be different. (crunch) (crunch) (crunch) doing?" What's your name?
  419. …in reply to @karaastone
    @karaastone given a choice, and the presence of aliens and robots who can be and want to be fucked, I'd go with aliens. but robots are probably sexier.
  420. …in reply to @v21
    @karaastone aliens are just more exciting, whereas we basically have robots now
  421. RT @Andy_Makes: Hey typophiles, I made something for you! Please enjoy Timez New Roman, my fresh & hip take on a classic. zip here: https:…
  422. the thing where all the far-right isolationist nationalists from around the world are all friends with each other is weird?
  423. treat marketing work as creative work @dom2d/854170704492810240
  424. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry where are those fellows?
  425. RT @etluiii: Because my friends and i cant stop thinking about weird shows in art museums: what would u put in the memes exhibit? I want to…
  426. RT @hentaiphd: KIMMY, a visual novel about babysitting in 1960s Massachusetts, is now out on Steam, Itchio and the Humble Store! https://t.…
  427. i am doing a thing at work i have not done before, and i am getting good (gentle) advice and support from a colleague
  428. …in reply to @timoncheese
    @timoncheese here for "both"
  429. I thought I didn't really like apples, but I had one yesterday and I was surprised at how good it was.
  430. …in reply to @v21
    But, due to my lack of apple-eating practice, I just made a rookie error : I started eating one at the start of a short tube journey.
  431. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark tweet ids must be vaguely incrementing... this feels brute forceable
  432. RT @davidcrespo: 1/ when people think of automation, they usually think of a person who stands next to a conveyor belt being replaced by a…
  433. often i resist posting about politics on here, because it's stressful to live in and i'd be preaching to the converted. but: fuck the tories
  434. …in reply to @v21
    fuck Brexit, fuck these fucking fascists, fuck austerity, fuck the slow draining of power into corps, fuck the people hurting my friends
  435. …in reply to @mrgan
    @mrgan @vectorpark @whatisian oh, but that's fine. you just have to guess and get lucky once.
  436. …in reply to @v21
    @mrgan @vectorpark @whatisian what's the variance on increase in tweet id over a minute? thems your odds.
  437. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark @mrgan @whatisian yeah, that's what I was thinking. and you use the id of the previous tweet as the baseline. dunno what patterns you'd see - worth eyeballing
  438. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark @mrgan @whatisian Ah, that'd be great! I don't think it'd happen like that, tho? The URL has the username in...
  439. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia There was still a stalk and a little thingy on the bottom.
  440. RT @aparrish: the cool thing about programming is that making a simple example like this (listing closest colors based on RGB vals) still f…
  441. …in reply to @LorenzoPilia
    @LorenzoPilia Look, I'm only just at the "I like eating apples without cutting them up with a knife" stage... we'll inch closer.
  442. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark @mrgan @whatisian oh, cool! i guess that's a simple way to keep permalinks despite username changes...
  443. RT @ImogenRW: On a day of general perturbation, I bring you a French bulldog, skateboarding in Clissold Park
  444. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker @whatisian @vectorpark @mrgan assuming it's just an increment rate - i imagine various places must fetch ids as a block, not on demand one by one...
  445. …in reply to @lazerwalker
    @lazerwalker @whatisian @vectorpark @mrgan i don't want to assume too much about the architecture... but it probably settles down a bit if you keep a websocket open...
  446. RT @lorenzofb: Attribution is tricky. Except when you literally watch as hackers type on keyboard and break into your computers https://t.…
  447. RT @womensart1: Christine Wu, Nesting, 2015 #womensart
  448. I really need to start getting up in time to cycle in again.
  449. …in reply to @kcimc
    @kcimc @vectorpark @whatisian what happened to the tweet?!
  450. RT @MonsieurEureka: they never made it in the game but those fish keys are neat
  451. …in reply to @gothdome
    @gothdome OH NO
  452. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi i would probably say "small kettle lead"
  453. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir @netgal_emi well, *i'd* understand what you meant
  454. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi i asked at work. - "two pin kettle lead" - "a wall-e cable." "what?!" "because it looks like his eyes"
  455. fwiw, i might vote green
  456. …in reply to @undefined
    @AviidAndy 20,000ish Labour majority, strong Remain with a Remain MP... so my influence feels minimal on that score (Greens are third)
  457. …in reply to @glassarmy
    @glassarmy i am very glad you did
  458. that eternal question: do I find out what The Discourse is about today, or will I be happier just leaving it alone?
  459. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo why did you reminddd meeee i was thinking about doing this???
  460. …in reply to @v21
    @Oujevipo i am already A Bit Behind with talk prep
  461. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal i take it from that you're not going? :< but: if you want a SNEAK PREVIEW/TO HELP ME PRACTICE IT, lmk
  462. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal oh! good! great! let's have a beer in the sun
  463. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen whoop whoooooop!
  464. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn i'll repeat my offer to jack of letting you have the delight of letting me practice my talk at you
  465. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo Désolé! Je ne comprend pas.
  466. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn Yes! Although I may also need some of Sunday until it's at a useful stage.
  467. yess! so proud of @tigershungry for her part in this @NewYorker/854681066355003392
  468. RT @tha_rami: The frustum culling thing proves what I tell many aspiring public speakers: stuff that seems obvious to you is still news to…
  469. i STILL think the end of horse_ebooks was way funnier and weirder than we had any right to expect
  470. @notquitereal found going through some of my work notes...
  471. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle it's so good! enjoy!
  472. …in reply to @v21
    show me a single person who called "oh, it was taken over years ago as part of a long term advert for a FMV game about Bear Stearns"
  473. …in reply to @v21
    "they wrote the tweets manually, and refused to automate posting them - they just woke up in the middle of the night to post them by hand"
  474. …in reply to @v21
    "and actually it was a tie in with that mysterious YouTube channel about pronouncing words correctly. i mean, obviously."
  475. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal oh, just a pitch for ██████████████. wanted more narrative & a good high-concept conceit.
  476. …in reply to @undefined
    @Dogin_Hoodie not to be unduly harsh, but: i don't really care about HZD or it's marketing campaign.
  477. RT @popoalu: WOW HI ALMOST FORGOT, BUT!!!! here's my new Madoka Rebellion set! I will have these at AX!
  478. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow wow, you're like... 4 years ahead of schedule with these feelings? so impatient!
  479. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow okay, but, to be real: i have achieved long term (not that long term, okay, admittedly) goals several times!
  480. …in reply to @v21
    @katbamkapow ... i just ... explicitly set myself the task of having some new aspirations? and now i do?
  481. …in reply to @janakinsman
    @janakinsman get it! unless earphones with a mic on the cable would also work...
  482. …in reply to @JonRemedios
    @JonRemedios make a ton of notes, and then consider the act of making those notes to be a productive output.
  483. …in reply to @v21
    @JonRemedios i mean, also: they are
  484. clearing my Downloads folder. it was 60GB.
  485. …in reply to @v21
    who knows what vital things are now only stored on the backup i made sure to take of it beforehand.
  486. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi oh my god “You have to find your way through the passages but it’s tricky because they’re all made of art.
  487. i just read a glowing (and thoughtful!) writeup of a thing i recently did (with others) from someone i respect. not really internalised it.
  488. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 i mean, that was Alex Jones' lawyers argument recently, right?
  489. …in reply to @v21
    relatedly: here's @netgal_emi's writeup of Now Play This medium.com/@midboss/now-play-this-2017-39a200b4d4e4
  490. …in reply to @v21
  491. there's a whole tedious thing happening with my debit card rn. it seems like i'll end up with a monzo card faster than hsbc can sort me out?
  492. …in reply to @v21
    (i still need a hsbc card to use the monzo card - but i don't need to fight for a contactless one, or for the PIN code (don't ask))
  493. …in reply to @v21
    oh, relatedly: i should probs change bank? (not from this, especially, just... because) who's best?
  494. "you need a website. why not do it yourself? with--" i did! i have a server and all! now fuck off and stop reminding me it needs an update
  495. …in reply to @sintecta
    @sintecta i'm subpixel hinting
  496. RT @molleindustria: goodnight it's time to dissolve into a cloud of quantified emotional responses
  497. hey, look, it's my whole life, it's there, inside the computer google.com/maps/timeline
  498. RT @garbagekate: definitely a veep episode , or even curb
  499. what's the slowest well known pop song?
  500. if by any chance you know me, are near Edinburgh tomorrow, and are not going to this: consider going! it looks very good. @WeThrowSwitches/854771612817793024
  501. RT @rpgwhitelock: Working on this vignette maker. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #rocks #madewithunity #trees #indiedev #grass https://t.co/…
  502. RT @v21: relatedly: here's @netgal_emi's writeup of Now Play This medium.com/@midboss/now-play-this-2017-39a200b4d4e4
  503. …in reply to @youngvulgarian
    @youngvulgarian @alexhern jumping into yr mentions to quickly shout out refurbished macs (or using someone else's educational discount)
  504. …in reply to @tha_rami
    @tha_rami people keep thinking the game industry is *this bit*. but actually, there's like... 10 different bits as big as that bit.
  505. …in reply to @elirainsberry
  506. …in reply to @elirainsberry
    @LizRainsberry if it's nice: i recommend renting a bicycle and cycling around the center without a particular plan. and then cycling in Tempelhofer
  507. …in reply to @morganholleb
    @mrgnptts if i still lived where i grew up, i would definitely vote libdem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Park_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
  508. just made a good creative decision (it was to stick a face on a thing that might be quite dry and abstract otherwise)
  509. …in reply to @v21
    i thought about this tweet some more, and i should fess up. it was mainly @streamofstars idea. (he does faces, i do abstractions)
  510. the 💫delightful💫 Vignettes is now out for iOS! vignettesga.me
  511. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir that's cool! i am looking forward to seeing you there
  512. …in reply to @erbridge
    @erbridge @adrielbeaver 😭
  513. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo those flippy anims are fucking lush
  514. RT @ADAMATOMIC: in games (AND LIFE WHOA) you don’t automatically learn from your failures some failures are way more learnable than others
  515. game designers, what proportion of your effort goes into teaching the player things?
  516. …in reply to @migrafael
    @migrafael @spookysquid only 4 options here, i did what i could!
  517. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb i hope that's the case?? idk. i am also very surprised.
  518. fuckin' get in, people making good use of regex-based replies in CBDQ
  519. …in reply to @hypirlink
    @hypirlink replies bit at the bottom - match up smth like "music" : "#music_response#"
  520. …in reply to @neighbour_civs
    @neighbour_civs what festivals occur here?
  521. I was shown this poem by @hollygramazio and I really like it poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/still-life/
  522. …in reply to @underskinnyhrt
    @underskinnyhrt i got one recently and it has been a pleasant experience. nice to not feel like you have to be entertaining all the time, y'know?
  523. …in reply to @neighbour_civs
  524. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain @neighbour_civs build the roads where people go!
  525. …in reply to @lorenschmidt
    @lorenschmidt yeah - reworking systems so they can be understood, adding hints and context to point to them, tweaking problem-solution ordering: all count
  526. …in reply to @HTHRFLWRS
    @HTHRFLWRS this all counts, to me, but this points at the ways people understood the question differently. which reassures me about the low answers??
  527. …in reply to @v21
    @HTHRFLWRS all of which is, of course, very self referential
  528. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @underskinnyhrt wait, what's yr alt? can i follow?
  529. …in reply to @mousefountain
    @mousefountain @neighbour_civs that's regexes for you. I think they're evaluated in order???
  530. sending good thoughts to all my friends disconnected by circumstance (money) from the communities that make them strong. you're still great.
  531. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @underskinnyhrt @Coleo_Kin that's the shit I'm here for
  532. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle I think so!
  533. @kitrichardsonuk old school: @oldschoolflyers
  534. …in reply to @adrianhon
    @adrianhon Haha! I just saw it launched tonight as well! I wasn't sure when it was gonna go live.
  535. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi knock 'em dead
  536. this article has a lot of wild stuff sparking between the quotes theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/21/teenage-hackers-motivated-moral-crusade-money-cybercrime
  537. …in reply to @v21
    oh my god the image in this twitter card
  538. …in reply to @v21
    study: young hackers are idealists, don't care about money yh: it's true study author: they could get great jobs if it wasn't for the crimes
  539. RT @christianbok: Watch two balls use a Rube Goldberg machine to rescue a third ball trapped by an evil gang of orbs—(for @alienated): http…
  540. …in reply to @zerstoerer
    @zerstoerer @HonestWilliam @NordicGameJam #ideacourt remake of the Stanley Parable, but all textures are created from pictures of parts of William Pugh's body. v/o is just screaming.
  541. …in reply to @v21
    @zerstoerer @HonestWilliam @NordicGameJam VR game about being a small boy wedged between some railings, while the fire brigade are called out and ultimately cut you loose.
  542. …in reply to @v21
    @zerstoerer @HonestWilliam @NordicGameJam (if it does well, we can add "Butter DLC", where you are rescued by a neighbour greasing you up til you can squirm free)
  543. gamecamp is in 2 weeks. i recommend it for people who enjoy having interesting conversations about games eventbrite.co.uk/e/gamecamp-9-tickets-32481926316
  544. RT @alfiedotwtf: Glass broke, so touch is dead... Micro-USB -> USB USB -> Bluetooth Bluetooth -> Mouse It actually works 😂 https://t.co/K…
  545. …in reply to @neighbour_civs
    @neighbour_civs @mousefountain what am i carrying?
  546. RT @neighbour_civs: @v21 You are carrying : duck egg
  547. best reorderablelist stuff i've seen yet (still a pile of code, though! :<) va.lent.in/unity-make-your-lists-functional-with-reorderablelist/
  548. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke ah, if I'd seen this earlier I would've been down. another time, though!
  549. RT @gamesthatexist: I wrote about crime and punishment in Prison Architect and Democracy 3 gamesthatexist.tumblr.com/post/159766991996/crime-and-punishment-in-prison-architect-and
  550. RT @adtidixon: I mean, look at these, esp the first one
  551. …in reply to @v21
    😐
  552. …in reply to @LovedayBrooke
    @LovedayBrooke i am in Berlin! but beyond then, let's
  553. the projection mapping at games are for everyone looks wild
  554. …in reply to @v21
    also projecting onto the stone walls : 👌 (go look at @WeThrowSwitches's feed for pics)
  555. RT @jacobinmag: It’s hard to think of a piece of media that understands itself less than Duke Nukem 3D. jacobinmag.com/2017/04/duke-nukems-dystopian-fantasies/
  556. …in reply to @akerfoot
    @akerfoot no, that'd be a lawn. but a lawn goes in a garden
  557. …in reply to @akerfoot
    @akerfoot ah, we don't have "yard" (or, it means different things). so garden takes on the containing role (for a suburban house, certainly)
  558. right, i have the weekend to write this quite intricate talk! *fires up unity to start writing the software to present from*
  559. …in reply to @v21
    oh god, i think i might be writing code for which floating point will not be accurate enough... well, we'll see.
  560. RT @KommanderKlobb: The Georgian alphabet is beautiful. I have so many photos of signs.
  561. for me, the perspective i'm gleaning from this slide is really unhelpful @WeAreMuesli/855733595415224320
  562. …in reply to @v21
    (here's what I'm gleaning: creative freedom is in direct opposition with commercial viability (because generic stuff has broader appeal))
  563. …in reply to @v21
    but i would say that yr creative choices are always answers to a question (though, yes, you always have to decide what the question is, too)
  564. …in reply to @v21
    and what makes people buy your [entertainment product]? because it has something new and exciting in it.
  565. …in reply to @v21
    yes, think of your audience (the version that matters is the one they will have in their heads). & please please consider other cultures.
  566. oh, hey, i'm supposed to be leaving the house to get to a thing about now. i guess... i should put some clothes on?
  567. RT @adrianhon: Nice to see @v21's Soft Landcapes series on the @ElectricObjects magic painting screen that @hondanhon got us for Christmas!…
  568. RT @asclla: whats an archillect-ish aesthetic bot that credits better + isnt a weeb + isnt constantly horny
  569. Forest of Sleep is looking good (cc @edclef) @pointandgifadv/855657548707278848
  570. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow @NPR yess! i saw a different article on this paper, and they extensively quoted Professor Shoelace
  571. thinking about good times as a child, crouched inside a rhododendron bush
  572. have ended up by the "wheels park" where that dog was skateboarding the other day
  573. not sure where I stand. on the one hand, i wouldn't recommend game courses for most people. otoh, game dev is much wider than people think. @lizardengland/855816965004382208
  574. …in reply to @v21
    I mean, even specifically within his metaphor, I know a bunch of people (less famous than Grohl) who make a living as musicians-- for games.
  575. …in reply to @ADAMATOMIC
    @ADAMATOMIC yeah: many more paths than are obvious. On the other hand: it is Very Good to get skills that are worth money outside of games.
  576. …in reply to @waxpancake
    @waxpancake sorry! I pasted it here, but it's the password to my private account, so not gonna post it.
  577. this morning, I discovered the clean expressive lines and forms of @squinkyelo
  578. RT @mousefountain: Yikes.
  579. ugh I hope that battery pack I ordered arrives before amaze
  580. …in reply to @HonestWilliam
    @HonestWilliam @chromatogram I grew up in en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Park_(UK_Parliament_constituency) and if I still lived there I would vote Lib Dem every time.
  581. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa Where is this??
  582. …in reply to @studioanisa
  583. …in reply to @SimoRoth
    @SimoRoth @maia What do *they* eat?
  584. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn Excession is the one that delves deepest into Mind-to-Mind culture. A simplified answer is that Minds work quite hard to be inclusive...
  585. …in reply to @v21
    @deathmtn because otherwise the fact that they make the decisions and humans rarely have any real leverage on them would become too apparent
  586. …in reply to @v21
    @deathmtn they're the servants of humans in the same way parents are servants of kids
  587. whoa. all the cool italians are ganging up gamecollective.it/
  588. …in reply to @v21
    if we'd actually got round to doing that game collectives fanzine, i would put this on the front cover. glossy shot of them all squatting.
  589. ugh i need to do this talk sooooon so i have time to make the zine to accompany it.
  590. …in reply to @jukiokallio
    @jukiokallio @RealRiker @Anchel @MartinKvale whoa whoa whoa, yeah, how can i get that pls?
  591. just joined my local library, lads
  592. …in reply to @v21
    the fun part was having to pay overdue fines from before i went to uni (2006!). they always get you in the end...
  593. "If I manage to find one link per line, this will make the page about 100k, which is the maximum Google will index." web-beta.archive.org/web/20130409045822/http://www.robotwisdom.com/science/logarithmic.html
  594. RT @RobotMeyer: Brilliant editing that serves as a perfect example of how NOT cutting to match motion can build tension and/or comedic effe…
  595. …in reply to @v21
    update: i got home from the library, and met the amazon delivery guy at my front door. so that's good.
  596. lazyweb request: what are the longest and shortest cooldowns in Dota 2?
  597. RT @paul_haine: If you're ever having a bad day, just watch this video of a man trying to deep-fry gnocchi
  598. …in reply to @v21
    .@jomc haha, yes, i did get it from yr newsletter
  599. RT @zeynep: I see a divide between people who want a strong(wo)man to burn it all down on their behalf, and a fragile coalition with no cle…
  600. this, but for people not voting tactically against the tories @polclarissou/856246068132098049
  601. …in reply to @mcclure111
    @mcclure111 prob not the right way, but you can also have the same material have different colours on different renderers, using [PerRendererData].
  602. …in reply to @_gaeel_
    @_gaeel_ @justinmduke @ZooMachines i mean, you were ahead of the trend! most of them came out this year.
  603. …in reply to @v21
    also one from a Marine Le Pen supporter, but that's just depressing
  604. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb @patrickashe @nachimir @AMazeFest i have never went in a hot tub at a games event, and now i really want to
  605. RT @greg_jenner: NSFW! Here's the 17th century pornographic sex manual, digitised by google. It is FILTHY. books.google.co.uk/books?id=_9dNAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://…
  606. RT @SimonParkin: Chiba Kotaro, 2013:
  607. …in reply to @polclarissou
    @polclarissou THEY'RE IN THE TANKS
  608. RT @AnndraADunn: @WarrenIsDead 'evil corporation doing a thing' is the standard villain for capitalist society like the 'bad king' was for…
  609. RT @OskSta: Ancient ruins tileset
  610. …in reply to @keefstuart
    @keefstuart took me about three weeks to get used to cycling into work every day.
  611. …in reply to @v21
  612. RT @mollysoda: the disconnect between people monetarily valuing digital work vs. how much time they spend looking at screens blows my mind
  613. …in reply to @v21
  614. …in reply to @undefined
    @deathmtn even in "real" "videogames" they're often shipped as strings and compiled on the fly
  615. …in reply to @v21
    @deathmtn hard symbol limits mean they rarely get much larger than a single file and maybe a few utility libraries
  616. …in reply to @v21
    @deathmtn shaders are so fun
  617. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry @Dick_Hogg good work! horizontal, not vertical! you're now officially better than T-Swift.
  618. on "cute": "soft chambers is against the notion that the positive is always more straightforward and less interesting than the negative"
  619. this whole thread, basically! i had not thought about this. @maxkreminski/856580788380356608
  620. dunno if this will make it to the final cut of my AMAZE talk, but it's a beautiful document, so I want to share: pastebin.com/BRvPJ430
  621. …in reply to @v21
    the longest speedrun
  622. RT @xpatriciah: here's something most people don't know about the most hardcore of gta online players: kotaku.com/frustrated-gta-online-players-want-much-better-clothes-1794601047
  623. deleting the bit of this talk that's just me being mad about Theresa May and the fixed term parliaments act.
  624. responsible disclosure for AI developments @waxpancake/856605656769548288
  625. i work at a hardware startup and this is... excessive blog.bolt.io/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50
  626. …in reply to @v21
    at the risk of giving away confidential company information, we have not raised $120m
  627. RT @sean_a_rose: Writing is hard because it often ends up being the process through which you realize that you don't actually understand so…
  628. RT @SpindleyQ: I think I've found the earliest example of #brands using #memes; this was on Microsoft's website in *2001* https://t.co/pXhO…
  629. it's taken me a while to realise that some of the things i thought i was bad at i'm perfectly fine at. i just have very talented friends.
  630. …in reply to @haze_s1
  631. i am going to stop feeling bad about responding to old emails now @piglungs/856816954203680769
  632. …in reply to @edjeff
    @edjeff gonna stipple all my selfies from now on
  633. RT @waxpancake: @SpindleyQ @v21 In 1998, Blockbuster Video used the Dancing Baby in a series of TV ads. articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/02/business/fi-35154 Here's one…
  634. RT @davegibbons90: @Tim_Pilcher @McKelvie @elevenafter @kennykeil @julianlytle Actually, I chose the nine panel grid and sold it to Alan. G…
  635. even if it's not a gender thing or coming from some place of trauma or has a Story: you still get to pick what name people call you.
  636. RT @emshort: also since apparently we are all hot-taking today, emshort.blog/2014/10/29/writing-in-collaboration-with-the-system/ is a thing I wrote about how game mechanics contrib…
  637. Today I did work and didn't check Twitter for a few hours, and when I came back it was entirely Discourse. Not read it, not gonna, but:
  638. …in reply to @v21
    Spend your energy building, lifting up, and protecting the things you care about. It's only worth attacking others if it's in self-defence.
  639. …in reply to @v21
    to be fair here, this is a well targeted ad. i am professionally interested in weird takes on existing sports!
  640. …in reply to @undefined
    @animalphase it's yours
  641. i've actually written this talk out in full, and magically i'm now completely able to practice it by myself without any shame.
  642. …in reply to @v21
    many thanks to the tiny version of @hannahnicklin i have in my head, glowering at me to do better.
  643. …in reply to @carolinesinders
    @carolinesinders my thoughts! i don't know why they wouldn't have the exact same problems as perspective.ai. smart not to let you try yr own text.
  644. here is a television program about us making Beasts of Balance! redbull.tv/video/AP-1MSW6GX711W11/connect-and-play?playlist=AP-1MSW6FYF11W11:episode
  645. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle nice take
  646. RT @thorazos: "I was sure that when people saw my book they would say, 'It's even worse that I expected. Now one can tell what she is reall…
  647. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
  648. …in reply to @GhostTownGoldie
    @GhostTownGoldie I dunno, I haven't read it
  649. …in reply to @q_dork
    @q_dork I have just woken up to catch a flight to go to AMAZE. It's 4:59am here. See you soon!
  650. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa @katbamkapow @juliemuncy23 haha, I meant to ask you last night if your twitter feed was just This Discourse, or if you lived on some sunny social media upland.
  651. …in reply to @studioanisa
    @studioanisa @katbamkapow @juliemuncy23 That's the thing, and that's very wise.
  652. …in reply to @ohhoe
    @ohhoe Ahh, I totally forget I can do things in new languages and make it work if I don't for a while. Gotta flex them muscles!
  653. you know what's great? reading poetry out loud. it's fantastic.
  654. …in reply to @hoskingc
    @hoskingc I haven't! I haven't ever read Chaucer, actually. I should get on that.
  655. Videogames are bad at endings because they take a long time to play, and game designers are too busy to finish many.
  656. I'm in Berlin! It's nice here. If you're also at AMAZE, reminder I'm doing a talk Thursday at 5:30! It's on how long things take to happen.
  657. RT @hollygramazio: fiddling around with a game currently called All The People My Grandparents Knew In The Eighties
  658. …in reply to @v21
    Also I need to do some work on my talk this afternoon, but if anyone wants to hang out with our laptops open, lmk!
  659. Just saw "Apparel made for Tech" and some marketing pseudocode used to advertise a buttondown shirt, and god: bring back cyberpunk.
  660. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox Ah, cool! I'm by the venue now, just finishing eating a wrap.
  661. …in reply to @Draknek
    @Draknek @compositeredfox i'm perched in books & bagels, down the end away from the massing katamari. but not much desk space here.
  662. …in reply to @v21
    @Draknek @compositeredfox (so would be up for, ie, yr airbnb)
  663. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox @Draknek ah, so. grand.
  664. game idea : a cafe by the seaside where the internet is shit when the tide is out
  665. …in reply to @fernantastic
    @compositeredfox @Draknek still at books & bagels - can come meet, tho
  666. …in reply to @JenuinePanic
    @JenuinePanic If in doubt, and need quick/cheap nourishment: falafel/autogyro
  667. …in reply to @beckwig
    @beckwig great hair!
  668. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe oh hey, i finished doing my emails and now i have seen this message
  669. RT @willsommer: Someone in D.C. is freelancing anti-homeless bench blockers popville.com/2017/04/hostile-architecture-dc/
  670. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal Oh jeez, still? Ah well, it might be better once I get there.
  671. @daily_tarot_bot O Fortuna, how's this trip looking for me?
  672. …in reply to @hannahnicklin
    @hannahnicklin @nikkipugh @edclef I like how the glitch looks like the camera just got really overexcited about the plovers. Look! Look at them! I made them bigger!
  673. RT @nikkipugh: @edclef @v21 @hannahnicklin That’s kind of what happened when I took the photos: “Wait! Was that? Did I? Are they?” OVEREXCI…
  674. …in reply to @AjayOza_Actual
  675. I did my talk! It went really well.
  676. …in reply to @everestpipkin
    @katierosepipkin so, I don't know if there's there's crossbreeding, but definitely worth thinking about historical Farmville.
  677. People of AMAZE! Me and @AranKoning are going for a swim at 12! You are very welcome to join!
  678. …in reply to @rubna_
    @rubna_ @patrickashe @AranKoning Show yourself, cowards
  679. …in reply to @katbamkapow
  680. …in reply to @nyxtaki
    @nyxtaki thanks!
  681. …in reply to @nachimir
    @nachimir @AranKoning I'm waiting for Aran!
  682. …in reply to @AranKoning
    @AranKoning @nachimir I have a towel, we can share.
  683. …in reply to @mattlaschneider
    @mattlaschneider @Leonardo_UPRM @laurabrarian @GalaxyKate There's a 5% chance of not responding (or should be). So should stop eventually.
  684. …in reply to @its_natclayton
    @ScarletCatalie @adventuresofrob Yes! I have seen you around. Hi!
  685. I am going to have a shower, but then does anyone wanna get food? @netgal_emi @q_dork @moreelen @notquitereal etc
  686. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi @q_dork @moreelen @notquitereal Yeah, I'm down. I'm not yet fully clothed, but when I am!
  687. …in reply to @unusualcadence
  688. First games festival I've been to with an on-site tattoo parlour
  689. …in reply to @Poxican
    @Poxican Always there, I think. But also open for the festival, only accessible if you've got a ticket. People got tattoos!
  690. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx Unicursal or multicursal?
  691. #screenshotsaturday
  692. …in reply to @artcollisions
    @artcollisions I posted but didn't thread properly! @v21/852243706107363328
  693. …in reply to @notquitereal
    @notquitereal @q_dork Heading to Urban Spree now!
  694. hey @interruptConf looks great
  695. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver strike out "bad" and you're there
  696. Got the best feedback of my life after that karaoke performance: "that was a shit performance, but that's an excellent song"
  697. …in reply to @Oujevipo
    @Oujevipo @moreelen @netgal_emi @guttersquid @kurai @Jamo133 ah hahahahaha! a pleasure to party with you, and I'll get you doing karaoke next time
  698. …in reply to @mentarus
  699. On my way to the airport after amaze now! Had an amazing time, did a lot of great stupid stuff.
  700. RT @sheboyganscan: 37xx larkspur way - adult son creating disturbance
  701. RT @JonRemedios: It's time to up the stakes #Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/467470/Shoot_Shoot_Mega_Pack/ #HumbleStore: humblebundle.com/store/shoot-shoot-mega-pack #itchio: https://t.co/…
  702. Further to that : I can attest to the fact that SSMP is excellent.
  703. Guess what this was called on the menu.
  704. RT @LostDrawings: Jeffrey Catherine Jones